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B. D. ROGERS. MEANS FOR SECURING STEREOTYPE PLATES WHICH ARE CASTSEPARATELY FROM THEIR BEDS.

No. 406,371. Patented July 2, 1889 UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

EDMUND DAWVSON ROGERS, OF CHURCH END, FINOHLEY, COUNTY OF MID- DLESEX,ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO PAUL IVILOOX, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

MEANS FOR SECURING STEREOTYPE-PLATE WHICH ARE CAST SEPARATELY FROM THEIRBEDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 406,371, dated July 2,1889.

Application filed September 17, 1887. Serial No. 250,007. (No model.)Patented in England June 4, 1880, No. 2,275.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, EDMUND DAWSON Roo- ERS, a subject of the Queen ofGreat Britain and Ireland, residing at Church End, Finchley, in thecounty of Middlesex, Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, have inventedImprovements in the Means for Securing Stereotype-Plates which are CastSeparately from their Beds, (for which I have obtained a patent in GreatBritain, No. 2,275, bearing date June 4, 1880,) of which the followingis a specification.

The object of this invention is to make stereotype-plates and their bedsin such manner that the plates can be placed and secured on the bedswithout necessitating an inconvenient disturbance of adjoining pages orcolumns.

According to my invention the plates are placed on the beds by downwardmotion, and are locked up by the ordinary column-rules, as shown, orotherfurniture of sufficient height.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a crosssection, and Fig. 2 a plan,partly in section, of a plate and bed.

a is the plate. It is formed with vertical flanges b I) along its edges.

0 is the bed. It is made with corresponding recesses 61 (1, into whichsaid flangesb b fit.

Thus by placing the plate a by a downward movement upon the bed 0 theplate and bed will be locked up by the ordinary columnrules or otherfurniture of sufficient height.

What I claim is 1. Astereotype-plate provided with straight verticalflanges along its edges and at right angles thereto, in combination witha bed provided with correspondingly-shaped recesses to receive saidflanges, and means for holding said plate in position, substantially asdescribed.

2. A type-plate having along its edges and at right angles thereto andintegral therewith rigid non-flexible vertical side flanges b, incombination with a block provided with vertical sides against which saidflanges may rest, and whereby the said flanges are adapted to fitloosely over the said vertical sides and permit the ready removal of theplate by lifting it vertically from the block, substantially as setforth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDMUND DAWSON ROGERS.

WVitnesses:

O. A. PLAYFORD, 31 lllcmor Rd, Wed worth, S. E. T013. G. RIDGWAY, Not.Palm, 19 Change Alley, London, E. C.

